Vehicle dumping-body.



F. B. RAYMOND. VEHICLE DUMPING BODY.` APPucATlou FILED ocT.1, um.

l,288,67 Patented De.24,1918.

@einen PATENT lllllli 'VEHICLE- DUMEING-BDY.

Specification of Letteis Patent.

Pnten'ted Deea MMS.

Application lecl Uetooer l, will?. Serial No. MALOS,

In devising the present improvements in.

dumping-body vehicles i have hed. in niind to produce o construction that would be siniple and inexpensive, yet exceedingly strong and durable, and that further could be ein eiated with the greatest facility and Without the vdriver leaving his position on the vehicle. My improvements are peitieuleily adopted to be incorporated in a strnetnie to be fitted to the chassis oil :in ordinary lloyd automobile and are so illustrated and described hei'einn Aeeoiding to one part of my invention in its preferred foi'rn there is L horizontal training structure above which the dumping body structure is arranged, said structure including,` superposed longitudinal sillsllsay, two each) of which those the body structure project beyond the resi' ends of those of thefieniing structure, and e hinge eonneetionbetween the sills is peo duced by hinge members in the torni of straps einbieeing the sills and :i bolt or othei pivot connecting said hinge inenibeis. By utilizing straps foi' he hinge members and. nmlting them einbi'zice the sills, the latter nie greatly rein''oieed. against` the strains sind shocks incident to the dumping and return movements oiE the body, and in addition the hinge itself is strong and simple and readily disconnected i'f'need be. Ascending to another part of my invention the body has e teil gate nend'this is connectedjwith the niernbei` of said hinge-connection. which is on one of the sills of the framing structure by e link so that when the body is'in noinial position the gate' will be held elosed, but when the body tilts in the act et dumping the tail gate will be zuitonietieelly moved to the open position; further, the extent to which the gte is moved is inode variable so that with the vehicle in motion the lood nifty be spread to any depth.

ln the neeompnnying di'nwing,

Figure igis a side elevation of my invention. eel-tain parts nppeaiing in section;

Fig, 2 is :i longitudinal sectional View illustrating principally the hinge-Connection; und. Y

lfigy is transverse-sectional view also illustrating principally the hinge.- conneeH tion. y Y

a. indicates the frame and ZJ the reni.' wheel of un ordinary .Ford chassis.

lily ineens of ln'neliets c there are secured to the longitn-dinzil menibeis or sides of this freine. the sills d, which shown :we formedof Wood but muy of course be forme/dot metal. rlhese extend longitudinally, e'. parallel with the seid freine sides.v and they' have their i'ezii ends beveled rearwardly and downwardly in the seme plaine, e) at e, for n purpose to be explained,

j designates the body, the saine including;

in the present instanee simple form of box g, Stoss-pieces 'i on which the non is zn'- i'enged :ind rigidly secured, and longitudinel sills 'i on which the cross-pieces rest ,find nre rigidly secured.

The sills in the noun-al position ot' the body respectively rest on the sills (l oil the freine, the position of the body with i'efeiy,ence to the latter sills being preferably such that the middle of they body will be about eoincident with the apex of the angle formed by the top ot each sill (l :nid its beveled .face e, whereby it will require the minimum of eiioit lo inoi'e the body in dumping; or i'eturningA it lto noiinul position. The front ends of the sills i muy be out away, es :it j. to :iiioi'd n handheld, rind their reni' ends may be shed with lne/lol strips /c to protect there, though, e5 will be explained, usually the rein of the body will not come against the ground iny dumping; in the pieferied toi-in oi' the invention.

lThe hinge-eonnections are formed as follows: Eschv consists of en upper U-sheped metal stm-p l' :ind e, lewe? lJ-slmped metal stmp fm projecting relative",y ieversely and having the ends of the letter titled between the ends o the former, eno i bolt n penei'oiiiiingf the hinge-nienibersl may be seenied t0 the sills by screws yi. Y

The, arrangement described is not only simple aiitl'iiit:\;peiisi\'e. permitting' a l"oi"d chassis or other suitable vebiele l'raine to be readily titled u'itli a. dumping body and also permitting' sueli body to be readily i'eiiioved t'roiii and reassembled with the ehassis or frame. but it all'ords an exeeedingly strong; and durable construction. When the body moves to dumping position it eoiiies. to rest with its sills abutting' the beveled i'aees -of the sills Il. and `the eoiistruetion ol' the.

hinge-connections and then-relation to the sills l and z' are obviously such that in tlieiii` selves they are well adapted to withstand the duiiipiiugr iiioveiiient ot' the body being' thus cheeked, while they substantially reinforee the sills. vIt will be noted that. beeause the axis ot the bolt n is wint-identy with tlie sniiiiiiit ot' the bevel e, the weight of the body is supported in any position tliei'eol' rather by the sills I t'liaiiby the bolt u.

The boxig of the body has a tail gate q. This has vertical straps r whose upper ends forni eyes receiving' a pivot. pin a arrangjf` l in brackets 25 attached to 'the sides ot' said box y. A, bracket u may be riveted to one (or each) of the liinge-nieiiibers m. and eoiiiieetin; i` such bracket with oney of the. st raps 'rat the lower ein] of the later is ar lilik e. The link is of suoli length that when the body f is in normal position (dotted lines. Fig. 1) it. holds the gate. Closed.v When the bodyy moves tothe dumping position the linl; swings the gate open in an obvious niaii-v ner (full lines, Fig. l).

fl`hebraekets u may have a series ot' holes uto receive. a pin or bolt il adjustable in holes 'v' in link 'u whereby, the. extent ol opening movement ol the gate ean be varied. by changing the. posi-tion of the pin in the holes, so that'. with tlie'veliiele in niotion the load may be distribilted'to any desired depth over the ground.

yl`l`ie body /l nia be liehl in t'lie normal position by tlie lateh if'. readily aeeessible to the driver.

Ilaving thus l'ully deseribed my invention.- ,wliat I elaini and desire to seenre by lietters Patent is:

l. ln ,eoinbinzitioin a lraniine' strut-ture. a dumpingA body lstruelni'e arranged upon the framing si i'netuie and projeeting' beyond t-lie saine. one ol said st rin-tures ineludin; l a lon- 'itlnlinal sill. and a liing'e-eonnta'tion be and piojta-tin; l beyond the lii'st-iianied sill.I

and a liiiigre-eonneetion between said struetures ineludiiig' hinge members in the lorni of straps, eaeh extendin;l around the sill ol one. structure and having-its ends projet-ting relatively toward the other .sti'uetnre. arid a transverse pivot in said ends ol' said straps.

3.1n eoiiibination. a l'i'aniing strut-ture having' a longitudinal sill. a dumping' body structure also having' a longitudinal-sill normally resting' in substantially t'aee to l'aee. eontaet with the lirst sill. the. lii'st sill liaving' one end extending short of the other sill and beveled downwardly and thereby Vl'oi'nititl ing' a bevell'aee w-itli wbieli the other sill is movable into.substantially l'aee to l'aee eoiitact. and a liinge-roiiiieet'ion between said sills ineluding' hinge uieniliers seenred thereto and a pivot joining' said members and having ils pivot axis eoineident with the suiiiiiiit. ol said bevel.

Tnl testimony wliei'eolI Ijallix iiiysigrnature.

F. l. RAYMOND. 

